Mainstreaming the Mainframe: Igniting the Untapped Power in Your Enterprise IT

Escalating business demands are driving IT executives to deliver services faster, but how do you meet the needs of the business with overextended resources, decreased budget, and no time?

Join us to learn how to transform your Mainframe from a trusty workhorse to an optimized powerhouse that energizes your business service delivery.

We’ll examine how leveraging mainframe technology is crucial to an effective business IT strategy. You’ll learn best practices for modernizing and optimizing your mainframe to help you reduce costs and increase the efficiency of your IT resources.

Watch this EMC Tech Talk for a live discussion about how you can automate provisioning of the underlying physical infrastructure on VCE Vblock Systems with ViPR Controller. Delays in rolling out a new business service can negatively impact your ability to generate new revenue.

Integrate with VMware plug-ins and packs to create your own “as-a-service” offering. Easily and quickly respond to dynamic business needs with infrastructure lifecycle management.

Flash storage has the power to transform the way we do business, enabling organizations to accelerate IT, deliver a richer user experience, and gain real-time insights into their operations. But until now flash storage solutions have forced you to compromise on price, performance, or features. Some are super fast, but that speed comes with a steep price tag. Others are economical, but they lack enterprise-grade capabilities.

Join Chris Tsilipounidakis as he discusses the latest advancements in flash technology and how Tegile is disrupting the industry by engineering intelligent flash arrays that deliver high performance and enterprise capabilities at one-third the cost traditional arrays. Learn how you can accelerate your business, maximize uptime, and achieve IT efficiencies with Tegile flash storage.

The first installment of our performance benchmarking Webcast series, “Storage Performance Benchmarking: Introduction and Fundamentals” aims to bring anyone untrained in the storage performance arts to a common base with the experts. In this first webcast, gain an understanding of the complexities of benchmarking modern storage arrays and learn the terminology foundations necessary for the rest of the series. This includes:
•The different kinds of performance benchmarking engagements
•Metrics: why the “right” metrics matter, and an introduction to the variety of metrics that may be relevant to your business
•Terminology basics: iops, op/s, throughput, bandwidth, latency/response time

The first installment of our performance benchmarking Webcast series, “Storage Performance Benchmarking: Introduction and Fundamentals” aims to bring anyone untrained in the storage performance arts to a common base with the experts. In this first webcast, gain an understanding of the complexities of benchmarking modern storage arrays and learn the terminology foundations necessary for the rest of the series. This includes:
•The different kinds of performance benchmarking engagements
•Metrics: why the “right” metrics matter, and an introduction to the variety of metrics that may be relevant to your business
•Terminology basics: iops, op/s, throughput, bandwidth, latency/response time

The first installment of our performance benchmarking Webcast series, “Storage Performance Benchmarking: Introduction and Fundamentals” aims to bring anyone untrained in the storage performance arts to a common base with the experts. In this first webcast, gain an understanding of the complexities of benchmarking modern storage arrays and learn the terminology foundations necessary for the rest of the series. This includes:
•The different kinds of performance benchmarking engagements
•Metrics: why the “right” metrics matter, and an introduction to the variety of metrics that may be relevant to your business
•Terminology basics: iops, op/s, throughput, bandwidth, latency/response time

In this webcast, we will go over Qualys hardware and virtual scanner appliances for internal and external vulnerability scans. We will then demonstrate how you can discover various assets in your network, prioritize them, execute vulnerability scans, and generate reports that would suit your needs.

See how HP ALM software was deployed to support Agile development and test efforts in a private secure cloud environment for government agencies. Learn about their need and our resulting solution. Find out how HP ALM software is provisioned in a virtual data center cloud development and test environment. See how our on-demand offering, with flexible pricing, allows agencies to leverage their investment in HP Software, greatly increasing ROI and reducing risk.

The worldwide adoption of cloud technology includes business communications. This video is a compilation of sessions exploring vital transition topics including: why cloud is the right solution for a growing business; the cost analysis of old technologies versus the cloud; how cloud communications works at uniting multiple office locations; and ways to make a smooth transition to a cloud phone solution.

Wondering how to manage stringent SLA demands for complex networks that span distributed and mainframe environments, while simultaneously reducing your IT budget? Discover how you can dramatically improve performance and availability of your entire network by proactively managing it from a single point of control. What’s more, you’ll find out how to significantly reduce costs with total savings that might surprise you.

See how customers are leveraging advance analytics and automation to predictably prevent network problems and resourcefully plan for future network needs.

SAP environments continue to increase in both size and complexity, spanning multi-platforms and cross-enterprise processes. To efficiently manage workloads within those environments, you need to remove the constraints that impact performance and business results. Success requires a smooth way to analyze your system environment and gather operational data from your application environments.

Reduce workload pressure. Join Roy Illsley, Principal Analyst Infrastructure Solutions at Ovum and Karthik Mahadevan, Sr. Principal Product Manager from CA Technologies as they examine how SAP Administrators can take advantage of automation tools. Find out how you can easily manage and monitor job scheduling for both SAP and non-SAP processes.

Businesses everywhere are competing for customers and revenues by offering faster and richer mobile applications. Over 200 billion connections will drive information, data, analysis, insight, and transactions by the end of the decade. In fact, over 30% of distributed applications already have direct connections to the mainframe. Is your IT organization ready for this new Application Economy?

Join us for an informative webcast to learn how IT leaders are reconciling forces in the new era of the application with unified service level management for maximum visibility, streamlined issue diagnostics and significantly improved resolution times.

Big Data environments are no longer an option; they are business-critical for any corporation today. Cost effectively analyzing all types of data, they generate results to allow informed decisions about such priorities as product direction, sales strategy, and financial planning. With new, innovative technologies, your company can easily take advantage of its mainframe’s mission critical data. By securely streaming it to a Big Data environment, you can make confident decisions based on all essential data.
Learn how the right Big Data strategy can unlock your mainframe data and open up maximum insight to critical business decisions.

Companies today have a very heterogeneous environment with distributed, mainframe and Cloud, ERP systems, CRM systems, Hadoop and Reporting systems that can be disruptive to the status quo. Customers have to rely on automation since there is no new budget to manage more environments, more applications, more events and flexible placement of workloads. CA Technologies has been helping organizations reduce costs, improve availability of critical processes and increase business responsiveness for more than a decade. Join us to hear about some of our new cross enterprise solutions in our product portfolios, for CA Workload Automation and CA Output Management, and how they can help you drive new cost efficiencies and achieve faster returns on your IT infrastructure investments in this application economy.

Looking for a simple way to achieve cost-effective z Systems for storage? Join CA Technologies and Microsoft for an interactive discussion, moderated by Joe Clabby, President, Clabby Analytics, on the evolving role of cloud innovation and z Systems in today’s new application economy to help IT derive real business value through operational and cost efficiencies.

Your tape and disk systems are like trusty friends – and you have relied on these dependable storage media to backup, restore, archive and recover z Systems data. And with your organizations’ digital information growing from gigabytes to petabytes seemingly overnight, what options are available to datacenters when technology leapfrogs in a seemingly regular cadence? Buy more hardware?

Don’t be forever caught in “catch up” mode when it comes to your storage infrastructure. Attend this webcast and discover how CA Cloud Storage for System z, featuring Microsoft Azure, simplifies the process of storing mainframe data in the cloud and help lower data center storage costs to pennies per GB. Hear compelling ROI cases how re-envisioning your existing storage methodologies can help you store more and spend less – yes, it’s possible!

Looking for a simple way to achieve cost-effective z Systems for storage? Join CA Technologies and Microsoft for an interactive discussion, moderated by Joe Clabby, President, Clabby Analytics, on the evolving role of cloud innovation and z Systems in today’s new application economy to help IT derive real business value through operational and cost efficiencies.

Your tape and disk systems are like trusty friends – and you have relied on these dependable storage media to backup, restore, archive and recover z Systems data. And with your organizations’ digital information growing from gigabytes to petabytes seemingly overnight, what options are available to datacenters when technology leapfrogs in a seemingly regular cadence? Buy more hardware?

Don’t be forever caught in “catch up” mode when it comes to your storage infrastructure. Attend this webcast and discover how CA Cloud Storage for System z, featuring Microsoft Azure, simplifies the process of storing mainframe data in the cloud and help lower data center storage costs to pennies per GB. Hear compelling ROI cases how re-envisioning your existing storage methodologies can help you store more and spend less – yes, it’s possible!

Many organizations have not been able to demonstrate that they have effective compliance management. In this session Stu Henderson describes failed attempts at compliance management, the factors causing the failures, and what you can do to develop effective compliance management. Recommendations will address relevant changes in technology, regulation, and tools, as well as organizational and procedural issues. Stu's practical recommendations are based on over a decade of observing real-life mainframe security practices, and the factors blocking their effectiveness. If you are a CISO, mainframe auditor, or the person responsible for regulatory compliance, you will learn useful steps you can take to improve the quality of your compliance and your ability to demonstrate it!

CA Technologies and leading IT industry analyst Julie Craig, Research Director, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) are teaming up to host "Taming the Heterogeneity Beast: Application Development and Delivery in a Mainframe to Mobile World” live Webcast on February 11, 2015. The Webcast will explore the impact of platform diversity on software development and the impact of real world heterogeneity on both development and operations. Learn the importance of rapid, automated software delivery in a technology landscape spanning mainframes to mobile devices focusing on automation across the lifecycle stages, with a particular emphasis on delivering complex distributed and component-based applications. Find out how IT organizations are responding effectively to the demand for faster delivery of business-critical applications and the escalating demand for mobile applications.

Nearly every time you use a credit card, check your bank balance, book a flight, track a package or make a purchase, that transaction is inevitably processed by a mainframe. In fact, over 71% of the Fortune 500 relies on the mainframe as the “system of record.” Learn about innovative solutions that facilitate collaboration across development and operations to enable rapid delivery of quality applications that integrate critical mainframe systems with mobile and Web applications to drive competitive advantage in today’s application economy.

Tired of switching between schedulers to manage and monitor end-to end workloads? Companies typically have a need to automate workloads spanning ERP and non-ERP applications. However, traditionally they have been required to switch between built-in schedulers and external schedulers to manage end-end workloads.

This session discusses how CA Workload Automation (CA WA) can help you improve business productivity and lower costs with the ability to schedule, change, reschedule and cancel CA Workload Automation AE (formerly CA AutoSys®) jobs directly from SAP Solution Manager. We’ll also discuss CA Workload’s plans around for integrating with SAP products such as BW, BO and PI.

Get the most from your CA Workload Automation DE (CA WA DE) investment by hearing about recent enhancements over the last six months as well as some of the planned innovations beneficial to your organization. During this webcast, walk away with the knowledge of:
• Improved Product Performance through architectural changes
• Improved High Availability Features through Multi-Site high availability
• Improved user interface and stability
• Application & Job Definition Improvements
• Job Type Monitoring Improvements

Join us so you can make sure you are maximizing your CA WA DE investment!

Companies today are piecing together big data environments as they move from science projects to production deployments. Trying to manage the challenges and complexities of these mixed infrastructures without the right tools can be counterproductive. Bloor Research and CA Technologies discuss the importance of a good big data management framework and how that can help prevent application downtime and other common administrative challenges in the future.

Hear how addressing some of the critical challenges today can help you adopt the Big Data strategy your organization requires for tomorrow. These critical challenges include:
• The demands of high availability mission-critical applications
• Environment complexity due to variability of applications, infrastructure, and tools
• Expensive, elusive specialized skill sets
• Existing business rules and processes

New business demands on IT, e.g. acquisitions and department consolidations

Big data analytics is touted as the not-so-secret weapon for sifting through massive amounts of input to discover insights and pinpoint important events. There’s a big difference between the buzz and the real solution, however.

To peel away the hype, IBM Systems Magazine partnered with SHARE and IBM to conduct a survey of more than 23,000 System z* users across a range of industries including insurance, finance and retail. The survey results show that big data is beginning to make a big impact, and it’s doing so in surprising ways.

Get the latest on new Toolset enhancements in CA Gen 8.5 that will make your development life easier! Spoiler Alert: Generally speaking, these enhancements decrease the number of Toolset clicks required to accomplish a given task! This 30-minute session will also highlight the expanding role of CA Gen in our new CA Application Development strategy.

Experience the latest features and functions of CA SYSVIEW and CA NetMaster from the CA Mainframe Performance Portfolio. These solutions can help in your day-to-day tasks enabling you to boost your IT performance. Join CA Technologies product management and marketing leaders as they discuss the most recent releases, share some best practices and un-cover some hidden gems as well. You’ll also hear first-hand where we are going with the solutions in a roadmap overview along with a cool update from our User Experience team as well.

Make sure your CA 1 Tape Management System capabilities are being used to the fullest to maximize your software investment. This technical webcast is for CA 1 customers who have recently upgraded, currently upgrading or considering upgrading to the most current product release. We will discuss the most impactful enhancements and best practices so you can immediately begin using these recommended features with confidence to help improve your tape management operations today. A Question and Answer session follows immediately this presentation.

Examine how leveraging mainframe technology is crucial to an effective business IT strategy. You’ll learn best practices for modernizing and optimizing your mainframe to help you reduce costs, improve operational efficiency, empower the next-generation of mainframers and increase business agility through integrations and innovations.